Patent Wrap: MasterCard’s Plan To Turn An ATM Into A POS

February 24, 2016

In this week’s look at interesting payments patents issued and/or applied for, PayPal and MasterCard inventors are our payments patent people with a trio of invention applications all filed on Feb. 18. MasterCard’s filing envisions using all of those strategically ATMs for a lot more than cash-dispensing. This makes even more sense given that cash-dispensing will become increasingly unnecessary as in-person purchases go digital.

Meanwhile, PayPal wants to aggregate purchases from multiple merchants in one quasi-session. And MasterCard also has an idea for a way to use payment data to identify physically-proximate consumers with similar buying patterns.